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Colour Sound celebrates 10 with Field Day

UK Lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment celebrated ten years of being a main technical supplier to Field Day, music event, staged in London’s Victoria Park. “We are all extremely proud of that achievement,” commented Colour Sound’s MD Haydn Cruickshank (H), “and in that time have seen the event develop and diversify”.

Working for LarMac Live, contracted by producers Loud Sound Events to co-ordinate all the technical elements of the event, Colour Sound supplied lighting to the nine largest performance areas (out of 12) and LED screens to five of these performance spaces. Around 140 moving lights plus generics, control and all the LED screens filled three artics at their north west London warehouse. Fletch, Colour Sound’s project manager, worked alongside 17 crew, including crew chief Sam Campbell for two days of build-up and two days of performance.

The Main Stage - a large orbit-style roof system supplied by Acorn Event Structures - featured a production lighting design from Colour Sound that accommodated the specs of the two headlining acts, PJ Harvey (LD Johnny Barker) and James Blake (LD Chris Bushell). This entailed a full overnight de-rig/re-rig on the Saturday night. Colour Sound is also supplying the James Blake touring floor/visuals package for all their festival dates through the summer.

On Field Day’s main stage lighting trusses were sub-hung below the roof superstructure, and the flown front truss sections were curved to the contours of the roof to maximise the height. Upstage, a 10 metre wide by 6 metre tall LED screen was installed made up from Colour Sound’s BT-7 LED screen product. The moving lights on this stage were a mix of 18 x Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1500s, 8 x CP Sharpys and 16 x A.leda K20s fitted with B-Eye lenses, dotted all over the trusses. They were joined by 8 Martin Atomic strobes and 8 x 8-lite Moles. The house control desk was a ChamSys MQ300 and the FOH was looked after for Colour Sound by Chris Steel and Toby Lovegrove. James Blake used his own touring video screen, flown just in front of the house one, and this was tech’d by Zac Blayton for Colour Sound.

Stage 2 was inside a marquee approximately 45 metres by 60 metres with a capacity of several thousand. Colour Sound installed a 10 x 11 metre ground support system around the stage, with another truss above the audience rigged on the tent king poles. The moving lights here were 14 x GLP Impression Spot 1s, 10 x Robe LEDWash 300s and 18 x ProLights Diamond 7 LED beam fixtures. They were supported by 6 x SGM XC-5 strobes, 13 x Showtec Sunstrips, six 8-lite moles and eight 2-lites. The video was a 6 metre wide by 4 metre tall surface of BT-7 upstage. Lighting was run via a ChamSys MQ60 by Will Thomas. Dave Cattermole tech’d the video and Stu Bar and Frank Williams were the general lighting technicians.

The other stages - 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 12 - had moving light packages ranging from 8 units to 40 depending on the size and style of the space, plus generics, LED fixtures, other specials and control. Additionally, Colour Sound provided specials/floor packages to the Avalanches who played Stage 2 (LD Matt Waterfield) and Dean Blunt who appeared on Stage 12.

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